THE STATEMENT BY GRAHAM OF 'ONE WINTER WEEKEND IN JANUARY' IN THIS MONTH'S MOJO INDICATES THAT NEWBUILD WAS RECORDED IN JANUARY 1988, AND MOJO STATES RELEASED IN APRIL???

HOWEVER, COLLECTED STATEMENTS BY GRAHAM IN THE LINER NOTES OF PREBUILD INDICATE THAT NO RECORDINGS WERE MADE BEFORE THE MARCH 1988 THERMO KINGS PERFORMANCE...

IS THE RECORDING DATE IN FACT JUNE 1988? THIS WOULD CERTAINLY MAKE MORE SENE TO ME, ESPECIALLY AFTER HEARING THE MAY 1988 RADIO BROADCAST OF K.NARCOSSA, WHICH TO ME SOUNDS VERY MUCH LIKE A ROUGH VERSION OF COMPULSION...SEEMS TO ME THERE IS SIMPLY A MISPRINT ON THE NEWBUILD CD-NOT JAN 1988-BUT RATHER JUN 1988???

OR I COULD BE MISTAKEN, AS I WASN'T THERE (I WAS ONLY FIVE-OR SIX-YEARS OLD AND LIVING IN MESA, ARIZONA AT THE TIME)

NEWBUILD WAS RECORDED IN JUNE 1988, AND RELEASED IN LATE SUMMER 1988...AM I NOT ENTIRELY CORRECT IN MY ASSUMPTION???

88 will be a bit foggy,and dates cant be relied upon ..(it would be easy now with computers) but here are some dates from my address book in 88 that ive recently found in an old record sleeve which might help.
weekend of 23/24th july just says studio .(.house ) this could be it.
friday 4 th march hip hop gig at boardwalk..think this is where thermo kings would be recorded.
theres un identified recording on weekend of march26thand april 8 till 10
something under barry white on april 13th(probably massonix just a little more)..roadrider warehouse party on sunday 8th may..a lot of biting tongues recording in may..unidentified recording in june and a hitsquad gig in stockton on sat 18th june (wheres that?) a gig in wrexham on mon 20th june and another gig in wrexham on 11th july (or may be it moved ) a gig in congleton
(again hitsquad but would include acid set) think 23 24 july looks likely to be the newbuild session) oh 25 th july radio manchester so that would tie in with the similaritys on the 303 sequencer etc . exams on 26 27 (school of sound recording) and overnight session on 27th july could be so hot with a break to go to hacienda with it then automanik.. 1st august gig in wrexham (another ?) strawberry studios for a fewdays in aug 11 (this will be biting tongues love out etc) gig board walk on sat 13th (Hitsquad in quad) studio weekend french band..20 th 21 august (this was the bennets from paris produced via eastern bloc).. october 3 4 and 5 barton ..this will be edward not edward album .
oct 8/9 th spin masters with mc shine ,animal,pcycho. ,12 oct mor tongues.
24th october international one bbc radio manchester with inspirals there should be a tape of this knocking about but i dont have it it was on the radio.
track with dave booth (cant remember this at all) 27th 29thoct.
there s huge holes in this little book so its not accurate and it crosses over with my filo fax (how 80s is that) heres a page that says 6 nights in 8 track £300 ,2 nights in 16 track £200. hitsquad 2 nights £100,jackula half night £50
rough and tough acid track with alan hempsall half night £20
acid cut up £50 think these are studio costs ..
oh heres some more two full 16 track days 28 th 29th dec 1987 and a day in 8 track sun 3rd jan 88 could this be Jitsquad Mcr then it says record cut 13th jan which i could have confused with newbuild in the past and would make sense if it were hitsquad...Ill be back with my filofax dates ..but hope this clears some of it up

Originally quoted in the forum before the previous messages disappeared:

"...through the eighties On The Wire slowly built a reputation beyond Lancashire and the North West, throughout the UK and onwards, before the internet, via cassette to the outer reaches, Greece, Sweden, Australia, Italy, USA ... The show was fairly expansive: releasing a compilation 'Bugs On The Wire', putting on The Fall free at Clitheroe Castle when 2,500 people turned up, an Xmas party at the Ritz in Manchester including Sherwood with Gary Clail, 808 State, A Guy Called Gerald, Little Annie and a heavily pregnant Neneh Cherry absconding from a Bomb The Bass gig. First radio plays for in the UK for Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson and the radio premier of 808 State's 'Pacific State'.

As the Nineties turned OTW was under threat from the BBC as new leaves were turned, but at the last minute the show was saved by the BBC board pegging the show as a "unique BBC product". But the heady days of three hours on a Sunday afternoon were over, as in the BBC speech and sport ruled. And so OTW has wandered the airwaves within the BBC schedules ever since."

Leghorn records looked as though it was an outlet either for Skysaw (connections with Gerald's Rham! label) or Steve Barker of "On The Wire" radio show.

Also, Gerald's "Voodoo Ray" EP was released in October 1988, so the reason for Gerald's name being prominent was probably because "Voodoo Ray" was more popular at the time.

Also, I've finally updated the release dates for 808/Gerald on the Gerald webpage:

808 State's "Newbuild" was actually released in August 1988 before "Let Yourself Go" in November 1988. The original "Voodoo Ray" EP was released in October 1988, whereas the remix wasn't released until March 1989.The "Hot Lemonade" LP was released in March 1989 (although there were white label copies existing far back as November 1988).The original Peel Sessions EP on Strange Fruit was released in July 1989

CENTRE DANCE-floor stands a boy in dungarees, stripey T-shirt and trainers. A frightening vision, glassy eyes fixed on an imaginary point two feet in front. He grasps a bottle of Coke in one hand, with the other he forms an OK sign and sways rapidly back and forthwith arm raised aloft, oblivious to the preposterousness of his pose.

All around him people are moving to the music like flower-pot men, heads swivelling like slow-motion mime artists and palms moving up and down. There are homeboys, scallies, Bhangra casuals and hippies.

One day they'll look back on all this and be terribly embarrassed, but for now it doesn't matter. When the woodwork creaks, out come the freaks, but when it's Acid House night everyone is a weirdo.

Few are in a state of mind to notice the alternation between records and live tracks. And 808 State are that good. Back in the days when the London scene was still too hooked up in its'70s phase to notice the beginnings of a new House movement, this lot were experimenting.

They huddle round the DJ box engrossed in their experimental sounds. Graham of Biting Tongues takes to the mixing desk, various others bend over a complicated array of sequencers and keyboards, frenziedly twiddling and tapping. The main man is a guy called Gerald who can currently be heard on a RHAM Records 12".

A thick, choking white smog falls over the club from the 808 State dry ice machine; coloured by the psychedelic green and orange amoeba shapes projected on to the white-sheeted walls. Far out man.

A review of the 'On The Wire' gig at the Ritz from the 1988 Christmas issue of the NME:

ON THE WIRE CHRISTMAS BALL
MANCHESTER RITZ

ROLL UP! Roll up! all you freaky people! Outside the tinsel-strewn Ritz ballroom are parked coaches boasting the name of such far-away towns as Chester, Colwyn Bay, Wigan and Rochdale. From all over Northern England hundreds have travelled to pay tribute to the God of BBC Radio Lancashire, Steve Barker. Tonight is the Christmas knees-up for his On The Wire programme. And it's an extravaganza of hippness and insanity.

Welcome to the lunatic asylum. Home of Annie 'Anxiety' Sandoz. The Crass-girl shambles on to the stage with hair cropped, fag hanging out her mouth and black fingerless gloves concealing her hands. The Liza Minelli of One Little Indian Records, she bursts into a rendition of her single 'As I Lie In Your Arms', like the eccentric old lady who buys her 'glamour' from Oxfam. But this is nothing compared to the eccentric nature of the audience . . . This is On The Wire's three-way listenership. One third gang anarcho hippies, one third youthful homeboys . . . and one third dope-smoking, middle-aged civil servants!

Dungaree-clad 808 State and Brylcream boy A Guy Called Gerald are next on the bill with a hour of live House mixing. There is not a 'real' instrument anywhere, just wires, keyboards, microphones and tables of jiggling computers until they are joined by rap crew The Spinmasters to liven things up. This is where the dancing really begins.

Finally it's Tackhead tape time! Looking like a fat, ex-con bouncer Gary Clail begins the megatrip, rapping out the words of 'Half Cut For Confidence' with the balding genius of Adrian Sherwood at his side. The world is visibly shaken, Steve Barker grins and scenes of madness and hysteria continue late into the night.